tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post5291289494155998871..comments2017-12-11T00:44:44.841-08:00Comments on Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: The BBC, Mary Beard and Diversity in Roman BritainLKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-89843657239074028812017-08-16T18:26:00.371-07:002017-08-16T18:26:00.371-07:00Truthfulness? They should be representative or ave...Truthfulness? They should be representative or average. That&#39;s a problem with bimodal distributions, but as LK shows, that&#39;s not the case here.Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207803092348071005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-7922651857986386252017-08-12T14:03:33.155-07:002017-08-12T14:03:33.155-07:00Peter frost appears to be conflating &#39;African&...Peter frost appears to be conflating &#39;African&#39; with Sub-Saharan African. From the abstract of the paper he quoted it appears it is actually referring to North Africans, not sub-Saharan Africans.<br /><br />&quot;Previous anthropological investigations at Trentholme Drive, in Roman York identified an unusual amount of cranial variation amongst the inhabitants, with some individuals suggested as having originated from the Middle East or North Africa. The current study investigates the validity of this assessment using modern anthropological methods to assess cranial variation in two groups: The Railway and Trentholme Drive. Strontium and oxygen isotope evidence derived from the dentition of 43 of these individuals was combined with the craniometric data to provide information on possible levels of migration and the range of homelands that may be represented. The results of the craniometric analysis indicated that the majority of the York population had European origins, but that 11% of the Trentholme Drive and 12% of The Railway study samples were likely of African decent.&quot;<br /><br />https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19530143<br /><br />Sub-Saharan Africa was never part of the empire so it&#39;s difficult to see why they would have soldiers from there.<br /><br /><br /><br />Philippehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17386123430230365251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-31790936285379809172017-08-11T16:38:39.405-07:002017-08-11T16:38:39.405-07:00I&#39;m pretty sure (not completely sure, but pret...I&#39;m pretty sure (not completely sure, but pretty) that Lord Keynes is actually british.carlninja1https://www.blogger.com/profile/00737940350382307015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-20832480389386970042017-08-11T13:52:44.833-07:002017-08-11T13:52:44.833-07:00&quot;I dont see all of you kind protesting when r...&quot;I dont see all of you kind protesting when romans are depicted as northern europeans spoken with a british accent.&quot;<br />----------<br />Maybe because romans like northern europeans are white. it&#39;s a discovery for you?Chris911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-42914142927753624142017-08-11T13:27:48.806-07:002017-08-11T13:27:48.806-07:00The anthropologist Peter Frost, who is not a Lefti...The anthropologist Peter Frost, who is not a Leftist, suggests that Roman Britain may have been more diverse than even typical leftists seem to suggest:<br /><br />https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2010/07/african-community-in-roman-britain.html<br /><br />https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2009/11/was-roman-britain-multiracial.html<br /><br />&quot;First, the Roman occupation seems to have brought profound demographic change. This has been suspected for some time on the basis of unusual burial objects and epigraphic inscriptions that record the presence of individuals from throughout the Roman Empire. Now, after analyzing remains from two burial grounds near Roman York, a research team has concluded that the buried individuals had diverse geographic origins (Leach et al., 2009). In particular, the craniometric data revealed many of sub-Saharan or Egyptian origin. At the ‘Trentholme Drive’ burial ground, 66% clustered most closely with Europeans, 23% with sub-Saharan Africans, and 11% with Egyptians. At the ‘Railway’ burial ground, the proportions were 53% European, 32% sub-Saharan, and 15% Egyptian.&quot;Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-77516818124337496772017-08-11T12:59:37.457-07:002017-08-11T12:59:37.457-07:00I dont see all of you kind protesting when romans ...I dont see all of you kind protesting when romans are depicted as northern europeans spoken with a british accent.<br /><br /> And this happens all the time.<br /><br /> Now, here you are, a White american thing that romans and roman citizens were his ancesters, unlike southeuropeans, northafricans or middleastern.Invvvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12907868950750314304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-260252823001723942017-08-11T11:04:19.980-07:002017-08-11T11:04:19.980-07:00It is very unlikely that any family would be total...It is very unlikely that any family would be totally typical. If this family was typical in lots of other ways but just not in terms of skin color I see no reason not to call them &#39;typical&#39;.robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04682517711551179057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-8117116717399351562017-08-11T03:52:14.285-07:002017-08-11T03:52:14.285-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Philippehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17386123430230365251noreply@blogger.com